The fourth twenty-fourth chapter of life and death
The sky was gloomy, and it started to rain in the morning. It didn't stop all morning. Looking out of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, the streets of the entire city were shrouded in an endless blue curtain of rain. Occasionally, lightning flashed, and then
Then there was the sound of thunder.
"Thank you, it's wonderful... You can go back and wait for our call..."
Such a sound echoed in the large and empty room, indicating that a job fair was in front of her. Dongfang Wan sat by the window, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and twirled it in the ashtray in front of her.
Turned off: "Sister Ling, come here this morning."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman who was in charge of the recruitment nodded, took a document and went out. The others were also packing up, looking at Dongfang Wan on the side from time to time. They were all waiting for her instructions, and then dispersed or returned.
There was something to do. However, the young female boss obviously did not think of this at this time. She folded her hands on her chest and faced the heavy rain outside. After a while, she took out another cigarette and lit one.
, her right leg was raised up, and when the lightning flashed across, she raised her head and blew out a puff of smoke. There was an elegant loneliness in her posture, and several male managers showed more or less appreciative eyes.
Speaking of which, this female BSS is only 22 or 23 years old, but in the past two years from Beijing to Jianghai, she has an indescribable sense of maturity in her actions. Her approach to work has always been grand and not conservative.
Don't rush forward, formulate perfect work rules and procedures, provide sufficient resources, and then wait for the company to develop steadily like an organism. There is no sense of panic or disharmony like when a private company starts.
When encountering small difficulties, she will jump over them step by step, but when encountering big temptations, she will not be tempted. She does not blindly desire rapid development, does not like desperate plans, and hates the kind of maverick.
, members who are eager for performance. In the past two years, no less than ten employees who were talented but impetuous have been fired. However, as time has developed, the company has grown and steadily expanded and eroded the market.
Speaking of a special trick, no one can explain it. It boils down to four words: step by step. Some colleagues who take the eccentric approach often shine brightly for a moment, and then are silently surpassed by it.
If the employees talk after dinner, most of them just admire the family quality of the big family. After all, for this boss, in addition to knowing that she comes from a noble family, is beautiful and difficult to approach, they only know that she hates others who break the rules.
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"Everyone, let's go eat first, take a rest, and come back in the afternoon." Seeing Dongfang Wan's state at this time, after packing her things, Xu Yiting smiled at everyone and said softly. Knowing the weight of her words, the rest of them hit each other.
Say hello and walked outside quietly. Xu Yiting went to make a cup of tea and placed it in front of Dongfang Wan. Then she took the cigarette in her hand and squandered it in the ashtray.
"If you don't like smoking, how can you pretend to be serious..." She said, took out a white silk scarf from her pocket, tied it around the other person's neck, and took two steps back, "This will make it look better. What are you wearing today?"
She was dressed all in black, and boss Zhao next door saw it. He even came to me and asked me if my boss had fallen out of love."
Dongfang Wan sat there and looked down. She was indeed dressed in black today, a black women's coat, an elegant black L-length knee-length skirt, black stockings and black high heels. She couldn't help but laugh, and the heels tapped the ground: "
I match it casually, I think it feels good, my calves look very long..." He reached out and touched the stockings on his calves, stood up and looked at his reflection in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, "How about it, I rarely feel good about myself...
…”
"If you continue like this, sooner or later you will fall in love with yourself." Xu Yiting laughed and shook her head, "Did you know that many people in the company think that we are lesbians, and the betting market is open."
"But you abandoned me, you like my brother." Seeing Xu Yiting's face turn slightly red, she showed a gentle but helpless expression, "I've convinced you, after so many years, even if I talk to other bosses for hundreds of years,
You keep a straight face when it comes to Wan's business, and you blush when you talk about my brother. Well, since you abandoned me, I'll punish you by finding a handsome guy who can make me fall in love. Let us be sisters and use my brother.
Exchange with you."
"There are too many candidates on the list." Xu Yiting walked to the table and picked up her notepad, "Don't talk about the past, let's talk about the recent past. On June 28, the boss of Longxing Ditian gave ninety-nine roses.
Duo, invite you to dinner. On the afternoon of June 28th, Ke Jiaan called you to invite you to dinner. On June 29th, Lei Qing called you as usual. Fang Ming sent a bouquet of flowers, which expressed his hope to be with you.
There will be further developments that day..."
Xu Yiting read with enthusiasm, Dongfang Wan frowned, walked aside and accused: "You are not sincere!"
"But you can't just say you're not interested in these people from the beginning. There are many handsome guys, so you have to give them a chance. Even if they weren't like these, there were many people pursuing you when you were in school, okay? Although you scared away many of them.
...I also know your theory. Falling in love itself is a process of choosing and standing out, but you don't like the performance of those people and their unique parts. Your view of the problem is too extreme.
Well, you won’t have someone show kindness to you and immediately feel that their final thought is to push you to the bed and take off all your clothes.”
Dongfang Wan took out a cigarette: "That's it."
"Although there is a part of it, it's not all like this. Besides, if the person I like thinks about such things, then I think it's normal."
"So you are fantasizing about my brother going to bed with you?" After saying something casually, Dongfang Wan lit the lighter, and it was suddenly blown out. When she turned her head, she was greeted by Xu Yiting's red face with embarrassment, "K, K,
I was wrong, but I think it’s nothing, but my brother’s figure is actually not very good, ugly..."
She turned her head to the side and finally lit the cigarette. As soon as she turned her head, Xu Yiting grabbed the cigarette in her hand again. She put it to her lips and took a puff. She choked and then pressed it into the ashtray. Dongfang smiled gracefully.
: "I haven't tried this for a long time. I guess you haven't done this for more than five years..."
"I swore not to touch these things, but you made an exception..."
After being told what was on her mind, Xu Yiting seemed a little lost and depressed. In these years, they and Dongfang Road were actually in the same school. However, the number of times they got together was not considered to be many, at least not enough to be considered friends. What's going on in Dongfang Road in school?
Very good, I had several girlfriends who were all school beauties, and we even had dinner together. Although they ended up breaking up, Dongfang Lu never treated her as a very special personal friend.
Of course, he is actually better to his friends than to his girlfriend - he is that kind of person who never lets anyone around him be despised or left out. In college, most people still only regard her as Xiaowan's follower.
But he is obviously not like this, because of Xiaowan’s relationship. He once said when introducing others that this is his other sister...
"You can't do this, you can't do that, and you're stubborn. If you want to find someone who is unique enough for you to appreciate, it's hard to find someone."
Dongfang Wan laughed: "I don't think so. If it were Andy Lau, I would fall madly in love with him."
"It's true that there aren't none. There was one before, my cousin."
"Which one?" she replied casually.
"Cousin Jiaming."
Dongfang Wan was silent for a moment: "I couldn't help it at that time, okay? We were in the same class, so I couldn't say U to him. You can't fight back just because I said you like my brother. I also like your brother..."
"But you were the one who compromised in the end. You also deliberately cultivated a good relationship with him. You invited him out to play every year..."
"Yes." Dongfang Wan bit her lip, "He even said thank you to me in the end..."
In fact, some things are undeniable. When I got up this morning, I overheard my father talking on the phone. I don’t know what happened somewhere. My father was shocked. At that time, he said: "How could it be like this? It can't be done."
Gu Jiaming is back to fight again..." Perhaps it was this sentence that made her mood low all morning, and she also heard another news.
"Lingjing is back, she arrived the night before yesterday..."
Xu Yiting was stunned: "Then she..."
"She hasn't contacted anyone, but I heard that she has signed with an entertainment company, and they have decided to promote her... piano..." Dongfang Wan thought for a while, "She hasn't been back for four years, and now she will definitely explore your cousin Ming.
Things like the cemetery, the news of his death, my brother is in Shenzhen now, I would like to call him to inform him."
"Actually...I don't know much about their previous relationship. Lingjing and cousin Jiaming...didn't they say that cousin Jiaming's girlfriend was Shasha?"
"The three of them live together..." Dongfang Wan spread her hands, "It's the most unlikely relationship. Jiaming got terminally ill and broke up with her. As a result, she ran to Vienna and didn't come back for four years. She used to have a relationship with her.
She had a lot of good friends, but she didn't contact any of them, it was like she had disappeared from the world, and she was really cruel to herself."
Thunder and lightning flashed outside. Xu Yiting looked at the rain outside the window and sighed. Just as she was about to speak, her cell phone rang. She walked over to pick it up: "Hey, Mr. Qin, hello... Haha, of course I remember...
Have you arrived already? Well, well, you will come to Jianghai soon... It's great. When will the flight arrive? Then I... well, and our boss will go to pick you up... It should, it should, thank you all these years.
You take such good care of us... Xiaowan is not here right now, yes, I will pass on your words to her... Anything else... Okay, I will write it down... Hmm..."
While winking, Xu Yiting talked on the phone. Dongfang Wan just nodded and looked quietly at the rain outside the window. After a while, she got up and walked out, took out her mobile phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, brother, it's me... telling you something, although you may already know... Lingjing is back. She arrived home the day before yesterday. I guess she will definitely come to me after seeing Jiaming. I'll give her your phone number.
Or...well, when you come back...the things in Shenzhen haven't been settled yet...well, I understand..."
When thunder sounded, an elegant and lonely smile reflected on the window next to the corridor...
At two o'clock in the afternoon, when he entered the gate of Ye's Martial Arts School, the rain had lightened up a lot. Julian put away his umbrella and faced Ye Han who was walking towards him.
After having a conversation last night, and then asking around, I roughly know that Lingjing once had a sad story. There was a boy's book that she liked, and now she is dead. To be honest, this is really a frustrating thing, because you can
You can prove your worth by stealing love from anyone. But you can never defeat a dead man.
Knowing that they would go to the cemetery this morning, he waited until the afternoon to come over. The door of Lingjing's room was closed. Duan Jingxian did not go to work today, with a worried look on her face. She probably cried too - he probably also knew that the one who died
The boy Shu was very close to this family and treated him as his own child. Lingjing went to the cemetery to visit for a while and then came back. She didn't have lunch at noon. Duan Jingxian said twice that it was not easy to send him there.
"Let me carry it over."
He has learned some Chinese in the past few years, and communication is no problem. Who knows that after talking to Ye’s mother, the food has not been brought out yet. The door of Lingjing’s room opened. Wearing a white shirt and fluffy summer trousers,
Sneakers. The girl's eyes were a little red and swollen. Even with a light make-up, she could still see clearly. She looked at the people in the room faintly. She hesitated for a moment before saying hello: "Dad, Mom... Zhu
Teacher Li An..."
It's hard to imagine what kind of mood she is currently in, and Julian doesn't know the situation in front of the grave today, but in short, she doesn't seem to have a big problem. Her voice is still clear when she speaks. This makes the Ye couple even more uneasy, Duan Jingxian
He said: "Lingjing. Jiaming, he..."
"I'm fine." She breathed a sigh of relief. At that moment, her whole body trembled until she gritted her teeth. "I don't believe it. I'm going to the prison to ask..."
"But now...it's very far over there..."
Duan Jingxian wanted to say something else, but Lingjing took an umbrella from the corner of the house and was about to leave. Ye Han waved her hand, indicating that she could go out and relax. Julian looked at everyone's expressions and said, "I'll give it to you.
I drove over and it was still raining outside."
"No need, Teacher Julian..."
"It's okay, I don't have any plans for the afternoon, not to mention your current state...it's better to have someone following you, and everyone will be more at ease.
When he said this, his mother also echoed a few words, and then a few people walked out of the door. Lingjing got into the car borrowed by Julian: "Which way?" Lingjing pointed forward.
The weather outside the window was still gloomy. Although the rain had lightened, there were not many pedestrians on the road. They left the community here under the watch of Mr. and Mrs. Ye. Julian said: "The company has already arranged some work for you.
, although it started after a period of time, but I know that you have been in a bad mood recently, and you have turned down most of them. In fact, it is more difficult for you to start work as soon as you come back, but it may not be an opportunity. I don’t know what you were doing back then.
What happened, but...you have to forget him, because there are still many people who care about you, okay, I know this kind of comfort is very cliché..."
The car drove through the familiar street, with rows of street lights and lights on in the shops on the street: "I know he may be very outstanding, so outstanding that even if you go abroad for four years, you will always think about him and exclude everyone. Honestly
Say, I have had such an experience, but in the end... time told me that the reality is very cruel, because in the final analysis, we are all individuals in this world, we have our own, independent memories, there is no invincibility
Even when someone is missing, you still have your own memories."
He sighed: "Maybe we can never have someone, we can only get close to and fit in with someone..."
Under the rustling rain, Lingjing leaned against the window without saying anything. The car turned two blocks and Lingjing knocked on the window: "Stop here."
"That's it?"
Julian was a little confused. After the car stopped, Lingjing got out of the car and held up an umbrella: "Thank you for sending me out. You don't have to follow me. I'm fine..."
"Hey, what are you doing..."
Lingjing turned around and walked forward. Julian drove the car and followed slowly, speaking outside, "Come in, where are you going? I'll take you there. It's no problem. Isn't it very far?"
She walked for a while and entered the platform where she was waiting for the bus. She folded up her umbrella silently and sat on a long chair. Julian stopped the car, held up his umbrella and went out. He walked to her side and looked around. Of course he knew.
What is this place for? He spread his hands and said, "I don't understand..."
The sky was gray, and Lingjing sat there, looking up at the lit signs on the shops across the street. Julian couldn't get an answer, so he had to put away his umbrella and sit down next to her. After a long time, he heard Lingjing whisper softly.
Talked.
"no……"
"It's not what..."
"Everyone... has their own independent memory, but I don't..." the girl spoke softly, as if she was talking in a dream, "We... grew up together, and have been together since I can roughly remember things... maybe
Everyone has more or less the feeling of being alone, but I don't, never have... He was bullied, and I protected him and forced him to call me sister. We went out for a run in the morning and bought together when we came back.
We ate steamed buns, at first half for him and half for me. Later, we each ate one, and we went to school and did homework together. I always wanted him to be like me, and life always revolved around him..."
"There are three of us. I study with another girl, and he. Anyway, we are together like that. When we are happy, we are with them. When we are unhappy, we follow them. We play together on weekends and sleep together. Then
I didn't understand anything at that time, I was so happy... Then one day, it happened like that. There were three of us. The children didn't understand anything. After drinking, they didn't wear anything when they woke up the next day. I felt panicked.
But after all, the three of us lived together, and then we lived together for several years, living, living..."
"So happy..." She opened her mouth, her voice suddenly became choked, and she took a breath with difficulty. Maybe it was because she cried too much in the past two days and no tears came down. "Of course there are other things.
People, other memories, I also went out with my classmates and did other things at one time, but... is there any meaning? Only when the three of us are together, it is complete. We are like
Children who grew up playing with mud on a desert island got together when they didn't understand anything. So...only when they are together is complete and normal. Everyone has their own memory...yours
Do your hands have separate memories of their own? What about your feet, your head...if you suddenly lose them one day, will you feel that this world is the same as before? Can hands and feet also exist independently from the body?
"
"I went to Vienna to study piano... It was not my decision, because I believed that he wanted me to do it, so I did it... It doesn't matter how unhappy I am, he asked me to do it.
, I want to learn from it before I come back to scold him. No matter what, if I scold him, I can forgive him, whether it is about breaking up with me or lying to me, four years of being alone again.
How about it, it's not a memory of one person. I thought about it for four years, but when I came back, he said he was dead... I wouldn't believe it. If I believed it, then what's the point of me? We are one
People..."
"I know his character... He is too stubborn, and he doesn't want to implicate anyone. He thinks about everything for others... He has encountered something that cannot be solved, so he doesn't want me to see it... I don't know what he has gone through in the past few years.
Whatever happens, you will always get it back, as long as you get it back...as long as you get it back..."
At the bus stop, her voice was always soft and soft, without crying, and slightly hoarse. Julian looked at her side face, listening to all this, and suddenly felt that the girl in front of him seemed to be more beautiful than ever before.
He wanted to attract himself, like a whirlpool. Before he could speak, Lingjing had already stood up, holding an umbrella, and bowed to him.
"I'm sorry...Teacher, I know you have helped me a lot in the past few years, and I also know...some other things. I have also thought about it. He made me sad and disappointed. When I came back, there was a teacher like you next to me.
An outstanding person might make him angry. After being angry with him, I confessed to him... so childish. Teacher, what you said is actually wrong. He is not outstanding, and he may never be proud of his outstanding things.
However, he is not handsome and has a weird temper, but no matter what, I have been connected with him and cannot separate him at all. I don’t care about his advantages and disadvantages...Teacher, you are a good person, thank you.
You, I don’t want to say anything else to you, I’m sorry…”
With a slight smile on her face, Lingjing turned around and got on the bus.
Julian stood there blankly for a long time, and finally drove up and followed him...